The Forbes 400 "richest" have, as Gregg Easterbrook notes, been surveyed and studied on their views of happiness and life satisfaction. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Forbes 400 life-satisfaction results come in at 5.8 (on a scale of 1 to 7) in the latest survey. But so do the Inuit people of northern Greenland and the Masai of Kenya, who have no electricity or running water. While economists have always assumed that having additional income, allowing one to meet and satisfy additional needs, results in higher satisfaction levels- along with the simple fact that more money affords more choices in life-psychologists see it a little differently.
Results from 150 studies on wealth and happiness, analyzed by psychology professors Ed Diener of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, indicate that increasing moves up the economic ladder don't necessarily bring extra happiness. Diener and Seligman also note that most studies don't analyze correlation and causation. People who say they're happy typically earn higher incomes over the long term than those who say they're not. While money may not buy happiness, it appears that happiness can buy money.
-Journal of Financial Planning December 2004
Quantum Physics reveals that everything in the manifest universe, including our thoughts and emotions, is ultimately composed of packets of energy, vibrating at specific frequencies. As you think, feel and act, so you create the primary vibration of your being. The result is an attraction of circumstances, people, challenges and opportunities in exact vibrational resonance with your own vibrational frequency."
~Asoka Selvarajah, Ph.D
I'm back! I really needed to focus on my physical therapy, but I am still writing fiction. I have taken some online classes at www.writingclasses.com. I am also writing some blurbs for some online newsletters. Right here though I think I will concentrate on financial stuff.
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